Spam report thread
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:05 am
totally prunned! 
NO SPAM
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=15229
Regards - Xaron
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:48 pm
Yep. I'd suggest to install a real working patch against that as I already stated here:
NO SPAM
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=15229
Regards - Xaron
NO SPAM
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=15229
Regards - Xaron
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:37 pm
concerning your somewhat pointed comment about changing to a different forum software Xaron.... 
youre going to get spam registrations with any forum software (i see it all the time on all of them). you can do some things to make it harder for the automatic bots, but there are still people that actually do it live. the only thing you can do is just keep on top of things, and you have to do this with any type of forum
phpbb2 is just fine... phpbb3 will be far superior
youre going to get spam registrations with any forum software (i see it all the time on all of them). you can do some things to make it harder for the automatic bots, but there are still people that actually do it live. the only thing you can do is just keep on top of things, and you have to do this with any type of forum
phpbb2 is just fine... phpbb3 will be far superior
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:13 pm
The weak point is the Captcha. If the admins here would install a better captcha there would be much less spambots. Ok, I don't like phpBB because of its "programming" style... And because it's very popular and free it's (of course) the main target for spammers and crackers. I don't see any spambots in vBulletin forums.
Regards - Xaron
Regards - Xaron
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:43 pm
i see them all the time (and have to deal with them too as a mod on a large vb forum)... the mods are just doing their jobXaron wrote:I don't see any spambots in vBulletin forums.
but yah they do target phpBB more
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:31 pm
Thanks for reporting the spam guys, and for your understanding.
Right now switching to another board software would mean starting from scratch and there's not too much time and there's already quite a lot of valuable info in these forums. Fortunately we got several hands helping out deleting the spam and the users who just want to ruin the Irlicht party.
Right now switching to another board software would mean starting from scratch and there's not too much time and there's already quite a lot of valuable info in these forums. Fortunately we got several hands helping out deleting the spam and the users who just want to ruin the Irlicht party.
Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:30 am
Well, there are converters for wBB and vB, but ok, I can understand.afecelis wrote:Right now switching to another board software would mean starting from scratch...
But please just install this small Captcha-Mod and there will be no Bots anymore.
http://www.amigalink.de/phpbb2/download ... ail&id=101
Regards - Xaron
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:48 am
I've noticed the majority of these spam posts end up in the Offtopic forum. Would it maybe help to rename the forum? Or would that just cause the spammers to pick more random locations/posts throughout the forum?
We should have a vote on what to rename the Offtopic forum too!!
We should have a vote on what to rename the Offtopic forum too!!
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:18 pm
It would help to just install the mod I suggested... No bots anymore...Spintz wrote:Would it maybe help to rename the forum?
Regards - Xaron
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:02 pm
More fun to rename the Offtopc forum.
How about
Useless Posts or
Dont Post Porn Links Here
!!
How about
Useless Posts or
Dont Post Porn Links Here
!!
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:20 am
omg lol i thought there was an OffTopic as well as the freshly-renamed Off Topic, i was all "what the? we've got one too many forums!"
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:57 pm
It seems they are mad we renamed our Offtopic forum and are posting relentlessly, just everywhere else now!!! Damn me and my stupid ideas!!!
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:23 am
hehehe, it was worth the trySpintz wrote:It seems they are mad we renamed our Offtopic forum and are posting relentlessly, just everywhere else now!!! Damn me and my stupid ideas!!!
Hopefully one of the mods will get implemented soon.
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:18 am
If you need help doing that, please let me know.afecelis wrote:Hopefully one of the mods will get implemented soon.
Regards - Xaron
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:22 am
I think they need to start handing out IP bans
Or better yet would be to make a special user group for the spammers and make their posts invisible to everyone except those in the spammer group. This way they won’t know their posts are blocked because they will still see them but the rest of us wont see them.
Or better yet would be to make a special user group for the spammers and make their posts invisible to everyone except those in the spammer group. This way they won’t know their posts are blocked because they will still see them but the rest of us wont see them.